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I was trying to decide which part of your comment to quote so I could agree with it, but I agree with the whole thing. Perhaps it is a nihilistic view, but I do
by paulcole 5y ago
I was trying to decide which part of your comment to quote so I could agree with it, but I agree with the whole thing. Perhaps it is a nihilistic view, but I do think society’s options are giant magic machine or global war/collapse of civilization as we know it.
I even go a bit further than what I talked about. I don’t eat meat, have never driven a car (fortunately healthy enough to bicycle/walk everywhere), and don’t fly in airplanes. It’s funny when I talk about how I live and people say, “Wow how do you do it?I just have to _________.” I don’t have the heart to tell them that their great great grandchildren may not have that choice.
In that sense, I do feel like it doesn’t matter what we do today. The cards have been shuffled, dealt, and the hand has been played. All that’s left is to turn them face up.
- baremetal 5y agobut do you grow your own food or do you buy food that is trucked in and industrially produced?
- dclusin 5y agoBuying food from farms that get economies of scale would probably be less carbon intensive per unit than individuals tending their own plots. Those farms could also ensure they minimize/offset their own carbon footprints.
- baremetal 5y agois the manual labor of tending a garden a high carbon intensity activity?
- dclusin 5y agoI don’t know tbh, but I think having lots of small individual plots you probably lose economies of scale. Especially if you’re growing in dense urban areas there’s probably more efficient use for the land. Although vertical farming could maybe offset this. Mostly talking out of my ass. I’m sure there’s someone on here with the answers you seek.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoProbably not, but spacing out housing enough so that every housing unit has land for its own garden to tend probably adds a lot of high carbon intensity transportation.